throbbing light machine

Dear sweet fantastic gay Jeebus. *flail* This is ... suddenly awesome. Like, in that it's actually, you know, good, as opposed to cute and dorky. Not that it isn't still cute and dorky!

( Merlin 2.01, The Curse of Cornelius Sigan )

Last series, I enjoyed this show - it was sparkly, and it was an excuse to play again with the Arthuriana, which I've always loved. This series promises to be something quite different. Because I loved this on every level.

Because I love the girls and women in my fandoms, and think they're awesome.



( spring on horseback like a lady )

the heart closes like a nocturnal flower

Gwen/Arthur, past Merlin/Arthur
nonexplicit, dark – in this case, as in tragic
wordcount: 500 exactly
the way the story ends, the way this story always has to end

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Hoo. Spent today doing business - trying to sort out my stupid loans, because my college is full of dips who don't think they need to continue sending out enrollment information, and panicking around about graduate financial aid. Apparently, the state of Indiana does things late - they've only just set this next year's tuition, and aid packets won't go out for another two weeks. I'd been freaking, because omg July! and I didn't know about my loan yet! but I think I should be okay.

Lauren, sent out your dwth invite code, sorry to have dragged my feet about it.

I've been watching Merlin on the telly with The Baby, and man, they weren't even trying. The whole "born like this" deal? So. Stinking. Queer. I continue to not like Gaius. King Uther yay!

I just finished reading Gene Stratton Porter's "A Daughter of the Land," and was shocked by how dark it was. And grown up - I'm used to her doing bildungsromans, but this was a novel about adults. Perhaps the cynicism came from that. It lacks her usual transcendentalism, but it's strongly shot through with a very Midwestern kind of work ethic, one that values honest craft and tasks well done over riches or beauty. Her heroines are always very restful for me, because they're so often not beautiful, and yet remain loved and lovely. Though "Freckles" does rather break that pattern, at least wrt the Angel. I suppose that Freckles himself isn't exactly pretty, when you come to it.

I might be completely and irrevocably in love with this show. I was an Arthuriana baby, and I haven't had much of an excuse to get all bubbly about Camelot for a while. And honestly, when your showrunners are publicly saying things like this: "It is a very, very intense friendship. All epic tales have some elements of homo-eroticism in them, so we were always going to pose these sort of questions. These are men fighting with swords who get up to desperate things" - well, this is maybe what pure, uncut fangirl catnip looks like.

( spoilers for 1.11 behind the cut, along with mythological babbling and an analysis of the monarchy. )